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andHarry

Noah, seeking evidence for a landing place in the receding flood, sent out the most intelligent creature on the ark; the raven. It did not return to him. Animal behaviourists tell us that this species is among the most intelligent of creatures; jays, jackdaws, etc. and the man-wary magpie. These ‘bird brains’ challenge the primates in this respect. In the dove family we find the pigeon with the homing instinct. The dove which Noah sent out came back. Nor is it the most intelligent of our species which find their way back to God; the ‘wise and learned’ sometimes want to do it their way.

firstparepidemos

Not sure of what you are trying to say.

andHarry

‘Not sure of what you are trying to say.’

Not sure how to respond. Do you believe in a literal worldwide flood which devastated the Earth and drastically reduced the human gene pool to a family of only eight individuals from which all the nations and tribes today are descended?